Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Smallflower Stock

Matthiola parviflora

Smallflower Stock
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Macaronesia, S. Iberian Pen., N. Africa to Jordan
Climate
subtropical

About

Matthiola parviflora, the smallflower stock, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Israel and Jordan. It has been discovered invading the Sonoran Desert, beginning around Tucson, Arizona.

Other Matthiola plants

Matthiola afghanica · Thick Leaved Stock Of Beirut · Fragrant Stock · Sad Stock · Tenweeks stock · Night scented stock · Matthiola lunata · Matthiola maderensis · Sea Stock · Matthiola tricuspidata · Stock

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Matthiola parviflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…